Patents by Inventor Aaron Dennis Lawson

Aaron Dennis Lawson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250068673
    Abstract: A computing system is configured to obtain a plurality of media files that each includes speech of one or more speakers. The computing system is further configured to process the plurality of media files to generate indexed data, wherein the indexed data includes a corresponding embedding for each speaker of the one or more speakers identified in the media file and a corresponding one or more keywords identified in the speech in the media file. The computing system is further configured to receive an indication at least one of a selection of a particular speaker from the one or more speakers or a selection of a particular keyword from a plurality of keywords. The computing system is further configured to generate one or more correlations based on the indexed data. The computing system is further configured to output an alert regarding the one or more correlations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Mitchell Leigh McLaren, Aaron Dennis Lawson
  • Publication number: 20250046333
    Abstract: In general, the disclosure describes a computing system to automatically identify and classify audio input, including non-speech audio signals. The computing system may also add new classes based on only a limited number of examples of the new classes, to identify classes of sounds for which the system had not been trained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Martin Graciarena, Aaron Dennis Lawson, MD Hafizur Rahman
  • Publication number: 20250029601
    Abstract: In general, the disclosure describes techniques for detecting synthetic speech of a speaker. In an example, a machine learning system may be configured to generate, using a deep learning model trained to distinguish between synthetic speech and authentic speech, reference embeddings for the speaker that characterize a first set of acoustic features and a first set of phonetic features associated with the speaker. The machine learning system may further be configured to generate, using the deep learning model, a test embedding for an audio clip that characterizes a second set of acoustic features and a second set of phonetic features associated with the audio clip. The machine learning system may further be configured to compute a score based on the test embedding and the reference embeddings. The machine learning system may further be configured to output, based on the score, an indication of whether the audio clip includes synthetic speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: MD Hafizur Rahman, Mitchell Leigh McLaren, Aaron Dennis Lawson
  • Patent number: 10476872
    Abstract: A spoken command analyzer computing system includes technologies configured to analyze information extracted from a speech sample and, using a joint speaker and phonetic content model, both determine whether the analyzed speech includes certain content (e.g., a command) and to identify the identity of the human speaker of the speech. In response to determining that the identity matches the authorized user's identity and determining that the analyzed speech includes the modeled content (e.g., command), an action corresponding to the verified content (e.g., command) is performed by an associated device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Mitchell Leigh McLaren, Aaron Dennis Lawson
  • Patent number: 10133538
    Abstract: An audio file analyzer computing system includes technologies to, among other things, localize audio events of interest (such as speakers of interest) within an audio file that includes multiple different classes (e.g., different speakers) of audio. The illustrative audio file analyzer computing system uses a seed segment to perform a semi-supervised diarization of the audio file. The seed segment is pre-selected, such as by a human person using an interactive graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Mitchell Leigh McLaren, Aaron Dennis Lawson, Harry Bratt
  • Publication number: 20160283185
    Abstract: An audio file analyzer computing system includes technologies to, among other things, localize audio events of interest (such as speakers of interest) within an audio file that includes multiple different classes (e.g., different speakers) of audio. The illustrative audio file analyzer computing system uses a seed segment to perform a semi-supervised diarization of the audio file. The seed segment is pre-selected, such as by a human person using an interactive graphical user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Mitchell Leigh McLaren, Aaron Dennis Lawson, Harry Bratt
  • Publication number: 20160248768
    Abstract: A spoken command analyzer computing system includes technologies configured to analyze information extracted from a speech sample and, using a joint speaker and phonetic content model, both determine whether the analyzed speech includes certain content (e.g., a command) and to identify the identity of the human speaker of the speech. In response to determining that the identity matches the authorized user's identity and determining that the analyzed speech includes the modeled content (e.g., command), an action corresponding to the verified content (e.g., command) is performed by an associated device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Mitchell Leigh McLaren, Aaron Dennis Lawson